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Jing me is space.com managing editor. welcome to the show. >> thanks, clayton. good to be here. >> they find this planet. had they been tracking this for a long time and they finally nailed down this is just like earth? >> nasa has this space craft. blinking one spach of sky in space. for signs of dip in light. tell tell sin of planets around another star. >> because of gravity. it actually blocks the light of that star. it's like a flickering kind of a thing. they go back and look at it it and have to see it a couple times to confirm it's there. which is why it has taken a couple years to con...

A farari. it can move sideways and turns on its own footprint. it tops out at 15 miles per hour. nasa has huge plans for the space ride. collin powell is bringing us this cool stuff. >> this is an advancement. nasa is spending space craft to other people but what have they done for me lately? this is a showpiece of the different kinds of technology nasa is working on. this is both a test bed for future driverless cars you might see coming to a city near you, taxi cab near you in a few years. it is testing technologies that would carry astronauts or on the moon for future explorers. >> and it c...

>> and it continues to be close to the heart of this nerd. the international team that discovered this just published their findings in nature. what is this particular black hole tell us about the universe? >> it helps refine models of how stars form and collapse and what is a black hole and black hole for me my description is it's a star. but it's a star so massive that light -- the gravity affects light and then also tells us more about the age of the universe which we currently -- 17 billion years and i want to remind everybody of the technology that these are two different spacecraft the n...

It sounds like science fiction, spacecraft chasing after a comet. but for a european space agency it's a fact. >> yeah, a rocket ship on a multimillion dollar journey caught up with the comet making history in the heavens. here's abc's clayton sandell with the story. >> reporter: an epic space chase is over. after a ten-year journey nearly 4 billion miles. the first space craft in history to rendezvous with a comet. since 2004, the unmanned "rosetta" has been tracking through space like a cosmic pinball to catch a comet, 67-p. it's as old as the solar system. >> it's a 4.5 billion-year-old tim...

Increasing the rate at which we can transmit that information. >> and in recent years, you say this will push the space program forward but there have been severe cuts over and over again to the space program. we don't even have a shuttle anymore at this point. where are these lasers going to go? >> these lasers are going to go in the deep space armatta of space craft. and in the future they are going to carry along these laser communication systems. it can increase the date it rates from those locations, you can get high definition video back from the surface of those planets. >> does it hurt...